Achieving Understanding : Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

Simonot, Margaret (Department Of Arts, Law And Social Scienc, Bremer, Katharina, Vasseur, M. -T. (Department Of Linguistics, University Rene , Broeder, Peter, Roberts, Celia

ISBN 10: 0582086442 / ISBN 13: 9780582086449

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1996

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Title: Achieving Understanding : Discourse in ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research.

About the Author:

Peter Broeder is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University where his research involves unravelling processes of language change among ethnic minority groups.
Jaap Murre is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Previously he worked as a scientist at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. Dr. Murre also heads a research group sponsored by a PIONIER grant from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).